The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-08
PERSONAL.

The new President of the French republic is
near-Sighted
JOHN G. WHITTIER will celebrate his eightieth
birthday on Dec. II.
Mr. PowDERLY says he will start for Ireland
about the last of May
THE wife of Senator Ingalls, is a hard political
student. despite the cares of a large and grow.
ing family.
SUNSET Cox is now the only Democratic mem
Der of the House who participated in the Demo
cratic caucus of 1856.
EDGAR ALLAN Poe of Baltimore. is a member
of the Freshman class at the College of New
Jersey in Princeton.
RUSSIAN MINISTER STRIVE was warmly wei
coined on his return to Washington. He is one
Of the most popular diplomats at the capital.
Prince FERDINAND, of Bulgaria is said to be
dissatisfied and restless. His loving subjects
are not as loving as loving subjects ought to
be.
EZEKIEL PEABODY, of Ipswich, Mass, who will
be centenaIian in June next was the Oldest
man in the State to vote at the polls. He voted
the Republican ticket.
Mrs. Roscoe CoNKLING is having large brass
cross made at Utica, n. Y, as a memorial of her
brother, Gov. Horatio Seymour The cross will
be placed in Calvary Church, Utica.
JOHN SHAEFFER a farmer living on the
Meadows, near Newark, n. j., has lost five
children from diphtheria within eleven days
The parents are PROSTATE from grief.
SENATOR HAwLEYs bride is receiving atten-
ton FROM the pens of Washington correspond
ents. 1t is solemnly announced that she went
shopping few days ago and chose dressing
gown for her husband.
w. S. GILBERT finds a piece Of blotting paper
by his side great help when he is writing comic
operas. This is not for blotting his manuscripts,
but for drawing pictures on. These are carica-
lures, and oftener the sketch suggests a quaint
thought than q thought suggests the sketch
Mrs. CLEVELAND just now is leading a very
quiet life in anticipation of the winters festivi-
ties. She drives out daily, but spends most of
her time with her mother and sees few friends
number of ladies in Senatorial and Repre-
sentative life, not to speak of the ladies of resi-
dent official and unofficial life, have expressed
a desire to call to extend the compliments of
the approaching season 1t may be possible
that she will arrange to he at home to her init
mate personal friends, but she still adheres to
her determination not to begin her drawing
rooms until after the New Years receptions.
ALGERNoN S. SULLIVAN, whose death in New
York was noticed in the dispatches of the Morn
ING NEWS, was born in MADISON Ind, in 1921
where his father was a practicing lawyer. His
parents were both Virginians, and removed to
Indiana early in the settlement of that State
His father was jeremiah Sullivan, and was one
of the first Judges of the Supreme Court of In
diana. 1t was he who selected the name of the
capital of the State. Algernon was educated at
Miami University, Oxford, o., and after gradu-
fathers Office. For a short time after being adj
mitted to the bar he practsed at Madison 1t
was while there that he gained his first expert
ence as a public speaker. He stumped the State
in advocacy of the public school system and at
once won a reputation as an orator. Believing
that the State was not developed enough he re-
moved in 1913, when he had just reached his
majority. to Cincinnati, and there married Miss
Groesbeck. She lived but a few months.
however. He was one of the com
mittee of the City Council TO invite
Kossuth to visit that city. He soon won posi-
ton in the front rank of the legal profession,
standing foremost among such men as Chief
Justice Waite, Allen G. Thurman and Stanley
Matthews. In 1857 he married Miss Hammond
OF Virginia, and two years later removed Ia New
York. He was for while undetermined
whether to be settled there or in Boston but
finally selected New York. believing that il
would eventually be the metropolis of this coun-
try At the outbreak Of the war he was retained
by the Confederate government in connection
with James I. Brady, to defend the men who
were captured on the prvateer Savannah. and
who were TO be tried on charge OF piracy
There was much excitement at that time and
as Mr. Sullivan was known to be a very strong
States Rights and anti-war Democrat his
friends urged him not to go into court and ar
que the case, as it was believed there was plot
TO shoot him should he appear. He decided that
his duty to his clients demanded his presence
and argue the case. He was Public Admins
traitor of New York for a number of years. re-
signing but few years ago. He left widow
and one son.